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Group favorites

This is the nomination thread for the Group Favourites reading challenge. Please nominate your favourites according to the challenge description below:

This is very similar to the Deserted Island Challenge, but with a twist. Each person nominates 5 books based on these categories:

1. A favorite book
2. A favorite author
3. A favorite series
4. Favorite book titles
5. Favorite book cover

Then when everyone has nominated these 5, each person gets to choose 25 of the books/authors/1 book in the series/title/cover to read. You can choose 5 to put on a swap out list.

Rules:
* No limit to how many people can nominate, but we need atleast 12, those that nominated get to nominate again until we have 12.
* The 5 you nominate need to be written by different authors, different series etc.
* They HAVE to be books you have READ
* You can't nominate the same books/authors etc. as those who nominate before you, so you then choose your second, third etc. favorite.
* You can read one of your own nominations, but it has to be a re-read.

Nominations will close on 31 October

Options so far

1. Perdido Street Station
2. Catherynne M. Valente
3. The Culture by Iain M. Banks
4. The Lies of Locke Lamora
5.

1. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
2. Robin Hobb
3. Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare
4. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
5.

1. Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
2. Matthew Reilly
3. How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
4. The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30) by Terry Pratchett
5.

1. The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
2. Stephen King
3. Spud by John van de Ruit
4. The Sky is EverywhereThe Sky is Everywhere
5.

1. Daughter of the Empire by Raymond E. Feist
2. Brandon Sanderson
3. The Hollows Series Books 1-4 by Kim Harrison
4. Jinx by Sage Blackwood
5.

1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2. Richelle Mead
3. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
5.

1. Stealing Harper by Molly McAdams
2. Jennifer L. Armentrout
3. {nomination required - a book from the Lunar Chronicles has already been nominated]
4. Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
5.

1. A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor
2. Sherman Alexie
3. Matthew Shardlake by C. J. Sansom
4. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
5.

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. James Patterson
3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
4. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
5.

1. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
2. Kathy Reichs
3. Merry Gentry series by Laurell K. Hamilton
4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
5.

1. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Lori Wick
3. O'Malley Series by Dee Henderson
4. Beauty for Ashes by Dorothy Clark
5.

1. Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
2. Gail Carriger
3. Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
4. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
5.

1. Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis
2. Cinda Williams Chima
3. Burton & Swinburne by Mark Hodder
4. Cinnamon and Gunpowderby Eli Brown
5.

1. Slammed by Colleen Hoover
2. Kresley Cole
3. Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward
4. Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
5.

1. Entangled by Cat Clarke
2. Maria V. Snyder
3. Mercy Thompson by Patricia Briggs
4. When the Sea Is Rising Red by Cat Hellisen
5.

1. City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
2. Margaret Atwood
3. The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
4. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
5.

1. On the Island by Tracey Garvis-Graves
2. India Drummond
3. Sookie Stackhouse by Charlaine Harris
4. The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth LaBan
5.

1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2. Deon Meyer
3. Divergent series by Veronica Roth
4. We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo
5.

1. Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
2. Lee Child
3. Rizzoli & Isles by Tess Gerritsen
4. Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner [?]
5. [nomination required, Tess Gerritsen used in category 3]

1. Darcy's Voyage: A Tale of Uncharted Love on the Open Seas by Kara Louise
2. Frank E. Peretti
3. PAVAD (Prevention & Analysis of Violent Crimes) series by Calle J. Brookes
4. Something Beautiful by Lenora Worth
5.

1. Timeline by Michael Crichton
2. Trudi Canavan
3. Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan
4. Hunt the Moon by Karen Chance
5.

1. The Warded Man (aka The Painted Man) - Peter V. Brett
2. Brent Weeks
3. Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
4. Looking for Alaska by John Green
5.

1. Reach for the Sky by Paul Brickhill
2. Eoin Colfer
3. Septimus Heap by Angie Sage
4. Skallagrigg by William Horwood
5.

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Jodi Picoult
3. The Cousins' War by Phillipa Gregory
4. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
5.

1. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
2. Patricia Cornwell
3. Earth Girl by Janet Edwards
4. Code Name Verity
5.

1. Magician: Apprentice, Volume 1 by Raymond E Feist
2. Dan Brown
3. Bridget Jones series by Helen Fielding
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
5.

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. Karen Marie Moning
3. 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith
4. Midnight is a Lonely Place by Barbara Erskine
5.

1. Roma by Steven Saylor
2. Annie Proulx Annie Proulx
3. The Adrian Mole Diaries - Sue Townsend
4. The History Of Danish Dreams by Peter Høeg
5.

1. Perdido Street Station
2. Catherynne M. Valente
3. The Culture by Iain M. Banks
4. The Lies of Locke Lamora
5.

Hope I understand this correctly, first time doing something like this. (Yes, the last one is a "kids" book, but I still really love the covers for all his books!)
These are my nominations =
1. Crosstitch / Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
2. Robin Hobb
3. Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare
4. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
5. The BFG by Roald Dahl

Hi Justine :) Yeah, kids' books are definitely welcome! The only thing is that they have to be a minimum of 150 pages long to count for this challenge :)

I'm also not entirely sure that you can nominate a series for no.4... I assumed you 're meant to nominate 1 title, but it says favourite titles, which is confusing.

Lu, this is your challenge, can you please clarify?

Lauren wrote: "Hi Justine :) Yeah, kids' books are definitely welcome! The only thing is that they have to be a minimum of 150 pages long to count for this challenge :)

I'm also not entirely sure that you can no..."

Thanks! :)
There are more then 150 pages in the BFG, so yay LOL
No 4 is a bit confusing because of the plural titles. If it must just be one, then I'll change it, no problem.

Cool :) I think Lu is out of town at the moment, but she'll check in when she comes back.

My nominations

1. A favorite book Ring of Bright Water
2. A favorite author Matthew Reilly
3. A favorite series How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
4. Favorite book titles The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30)
5. Favorite book cover Steel

1. The Language of Flowers
2. Stephen King
3. Spud
4. The Sky is Everywhere
5.

1. Daughter Of The Empire
2. Brandon Sanderson
3. The Hollows Series Books 1-4 by Kim Harrison
4. Death du Jour
5. The Night Circus

Yes it is title. Sorry I sometimes type too fast :)

1. A favorite book - Gone Girl
2. A favorite author - Richelle Mead
3. A favorite series - Harry Potter Books 1-7
4. Favorite book title - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
5. Favorite book cover -

1. A favorite book:
2. A favorite author
3. A favorite series
4. Favorite book titles
5. Favorite book cover

I am going to nominate, but I have to give it some more thought

1. A favorite book -- stealing harper by molly mcadams
2. A favorite author --- Jennifer l armentrout
3. A favorite series --- the lunar chronicles by Merissa meyer
4. Favorite book titles --- daughter of smoke & bone by laini taylor
5. Favorite book cover --- heir of fire by sarah j maas

1. A favourite book: "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" - Flannery O'Connor
2. A favourite author: Sherman Alexie
3. A favourite series: The books about Matthew Shardlake - C. J. Sansom
4. A favourite title: "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" - Dave Eggers
5. A favourite book cover: "Kafka on the Shore" - Haruki Murakami

Here's a picture of the book cover I am nominating: http://idefiningi.blogspot.com/2011/0...

1. A favorite book: The Great Gatsby
2. A favorite author: James Patterson
3. A favorite series: Hunger Games 1 - 3
4. Favorite book titles: The Crimson Petal and the White
5. Favorite book cover:

1. Favorite book: My family and other animals - Gerald Durrell
2. Favorite author: Kathy Reichs
3. Favorite series: Discworld series
4. Favourite title: The Guernsey Literary and Patato peel pie society
5. Favorite book cover: Blue moon rising - Natalie Herzer

1. A favourite book - Lord of the rings
2. A favourite author - Lori Wick
3. A favourite series - O'Malley Series
4. Favourite book titles - Beauty for ashes / Dorothy Clark
5. Favourite book cover -

It looks like we have 12 people, yay!

However, if you haven't nominated yet, please do :) We could always use more options!

1. A favorite book: Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
2. A favorite author: Gail Carriger
3. A favorite series: Leviathan series by Scott Westerfeld
4. Favorite book titles: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
5. Favorite book cover: Sister-Sister by Rachel Zadok

I just quickly looked, and could these people change theirs, as these have either been already nominated or the series/author has in some way:

Wendy - 3. A favorite series --- the lunar chronicles by Merissa meyer

Can anyone see anything else?

Lu, not sure if this counts. I nominated Wee Free Men and then Marlese nominated Discworld. I don't want to take Discworld off the list, but checking against the rules, I'm unsure.

Yea its then off the table unfortunately.

Book: Not a drop to drink by Mindy McGinnis
Author: Cinda Williams Chima
Series: Burton & Swinburne by Mark Hodder
Title: Cinnamon and Gunpowder
Cover: Crown of embers by Rae Carson.

(Sorry for misspelling and not adding links - I'm using the android app and it won't let me add any. If one of the moderators can redo my list properly, I would appreciate it!)

Here we go :)

Book: Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis
Author: Cinda Williams Chima
Series: Burton & Swinburne by Mark Hodder
Title: Cinnamon and Gunpowder
Cover:

Just to clarify: if you choose an author or series as part of your 25 books to read, only one book from that author or series counts towards the challenge?

So I can't read, say, 2 books by Cinda Williams Chima which means I've read 2/25 books for the challenge?

Correct.

That is why the author or series or book by that author or part of that series, can only be nominated once! That is why I don't want repeat ones.

1 book counts for only 1 point.

@Justine, Goodreads shows that book 4. Daimon by Jennifer L Armentrout only has 62 pages, is that right? Daimon

@Liezel, Amazon says 89, but that is still less than what is required, so will re think of one and update my selection.
Thanks for picking that up!

I've updated the list of options to include all the nominations so far. However, there a few queries/notes:

@Liezel: Apparently there are quite a few books called The Language of Flowers. I didn't want to guess, so please can you give me the author?

@Jennifer: Is the O'Malley series the one by Dee Henderson?

Note/Question: Jennifer has nominated The Lord of the Rings as her favourite novel. It is considered a single (massive) novel in three parts, so the nomination is fine, but I assume then that if you choose that you have to read the entire thing. You can't just read The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers or The Return of the King. Otherwise, it would have to be nominated as a series. Lu, correct me if I'm wrong?

@Wendy: You need to nominate another series as The Lunar Chronicles was ruled out when Lu nominated Cinder.

@Marlese: You need to nominate another series as Discworld was ruled out when Varla nominated The Wee Free Men.

Yay thanks Lauren!

Lauren you are correct, unless Jennifer states which book of the LOTR's trilogy is her fav, the whole series, which comes as one book has to be read. So she can either change it to one of them, or keep it as is.

My new series nomination: Merry Gentry series by Laurell K Hamilton

I didn't realise that

The Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Hi Lauren

Yes it is the series by Dee Henderson

I don't actually have favourites but a certain someone we all know has harassed me into joining. I hope she (and all of you) enjoy the choices:) I am super busy but after the 27th of November I'm on holiday. And I am definitely in!!

1. A favorite book - Slammed- Colleen Hoover
2. A favorite author - Kresley Cole
3. A favorite series - Black Dagger Brotherhood
4. Favorite book titles - Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
5. Angelfall

Can never have enough options :D

Oh no!! I can feel myself being sucked in, ahhhh!! I'm supposed to be studying! Damn you tempting challenges, this is why I've been avoiding the group!!!

Hahaha log off log off!

Even though you are studying, you are allowed to take some breaks :). Good luck

Just went through the list to plan my challenge and I think we could definitely use more options!

Shall we all vote for our second favorites? That is why I wanted so many nominations, so we have lots of choices!

I think that would be good. At this rate I probably won't finish the challenge because there are too many books I don't really want to read.

Um, I notice than none of my nominations were added to the list? Do I need to change them? (comment #10)

Oh shit, I'm so sorry Jax, I don't know how I missed that!

K i'm up for second fav nominations. If you want to? I'll check back in the morning and nominate if you opened it to second nominations :)

not a prob, we just checking that I hadn't misread the requirements.

OK, i'm opening it up to second nominations now :)

Jax, is your nomination of Death du Jour the book by Kathy Reichs? There is more than one book with that title. But if it is Reichs then unfortunately Marlese's Reichs nomination no longer counts as Jax's came first.

Barbara wrote: "1. A favorite book:
2. A favorite author
3. A favorite series
4. Favorite book titles
5. Favorite book cover

I am going to nominate, but I have to give it some more thought"

Barbara, we're all looking forward to your nominations :) No pressure ;)

Yes, it is the Kathy Reichs one.
but I don't mind changing it if it makes things easier.

Alternate Title : Jinx by Sage Blackwood